The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 1

Kotick roared in answer, and old Sea Catch waddled in with his mustache on end, blowing like a locomotive, while Matkah and the seal that was going to marry Kotick cowered down and admired their men-folk.

Who acts: Kotick, old Sea Catch, Matkah · What happens: roar, waddle, blow, go, marry, cower down · To what, where: answer, men

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick, old Sea Catch, Matkah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 roared	nsubj
2	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 answer	case
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roared	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waddled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waddled	cc
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Catch	amod
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Catch	compound
9	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 waddled	nsubj
10	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 roared	conj
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 waddled	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 mustache	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mustache	nmod:poss
14	mustache	mustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waddled	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 end	case
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mustache	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blowing	punct
18	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 waddled	advcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 locomotive	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 locomotive	det
21	locomotive	locomotive	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blowing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 going	mark
24	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 going	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seal	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seal	det
27	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 going	nsubj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 going	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 waddled	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 marry	mark
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 going	xcomp
33	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 cowered	nsubj
34	cowered	cower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 marry	ccomp
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 cowered	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 admired	cc
37	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cowered	conj
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 men	nmod:poss
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 admired	obj
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 folk	punct
41	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 men	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar	past	Kotick		answer		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location
2	waddle	past	old Sea Catch			with Catch's mustache on end	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	gerund	old Sea Catch not said here			like a locomotive	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	go	past · progressive	Matkah				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry	to-infinitive	Matkah not said here				tree rules
6	cower down	past	Kotick			down property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	admire	past	Kotick not said here	their men and folk			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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